In 2020, very shortly after our third child Phoebe was born I launched my first podcast.

It was called, The Trailer Music Composer’s podcast; it was all about writing trailer music.

At first, I started out releasing blog-style “tips” like ‘The 5 Biggest Mistakes Every Aspiring Trailer Music Composer Makes’ type of stuff.

I quickly realised however that I did not like sitting at my desk speaking in a microphone.

To top that off I had a newborn baby that I would take out for walks to have a nap during the day.

Given that I am not a fan of perfection or the act of chasing it I grabbed my iPhone and started recording these tips whilst walking with baby Phoebe.

This was awesome, I got to get out of the house and also talk about something I felt very passionate about.

I then branched out into interviews and the odd show with more than one guest.

This was great and I slowly fell in love with the format.

However, I quickly realised that I wanted to talk about more broad topics, not just music for movie trailers. On the odd episode, I did but the audience didn’t resonate with those episodes so much.

Slowly I began to lose momentum as I ran out of Trailer music-related topics.

On the side of this, I launched another show called “Composed: mindset for musicians” which was a 3x per week show of short mindset-related topics.

Composed was actually an attempt to launch a vlogging side of my YouTube channel but again it didn’t quite click. Maybe vlogging about just mindset wasn’t the way, maybe I should do more interviews.

To solve this I launched another show called The Richard Schrieber Show - it was my writing pseudonym at the time.

This show was all interviews and I even go a VA to do all the episode artwork and everything…it was SO MUCH WORK. I loved chatting with other music makers but weekly interviews are a lot of work to arrange. Interviews were fun but I didn’t want to just do interviews.

So after several episodes, this show was left by the wayside.

3 podcasts in and it wasn’t feeling like it gelled with my work of making music.

Over the next 12 months, I trialled (in private) different formats for the new show and slowly came to the realisation that my thing was MAKING MUSIC so why don’t I just do that?

I could still do interviews and talk about other stuff but the main focus was making music. After all, I do it every single day so it wouldn't be more work to just record myself doing it and talking through it.

I was inspired by Sam Sulek and The VlogBrothers because their content isn’t overly edited at all - it just feels like you are hanging out with a friend.

That’s what this show is really about - hanging out with a friend who writes music.

This was the most common thing people said about my previous shows that they felt like they were just hanging out with a friend ❤️

So without further ado - here’s the intro episode to The Diary of a Music Maker.

Thanks for reading The Diary of a Music Maker! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit richardpryn.substack.com